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Below is the transcript of the portion of the show which They Might Be Giants asked the audience to record.

Note: Many of the lyrics are unintelligible, especially in the chorus to "With a Little Help From My Friends".

FLANSBURGH: ...And, if you're- if there's like, a really tall person who's been standing in front of you for the entire show, this is a great opportunity to ask them to get out of the way, {audience laughs} so you can do your film part. This is our experiment in crowdsourcing, if you could post this video online as, just like, uh, TMBG, Variety Playhouse, and whatever today's date is, and we'll uh, compile them all, and we're gonna make a 35 millimeter movie out of this. {audience cheers} So is everybody-

LINNELL: It'll be like, five hours long. {audience laughs}

FLANSBURGH: Yes. We're gonna say it was directed by Martin Scorsese but not tellin' him. {audience laughs} So, uh, is everybody out there, is everybody rolling? {audience cheers} Is everybody spinning, everybody in the back out there? We have some long views in the back? ...This is very nice, it's like there's some crickets in here, and fireflies-

LINNELL: ...There it is. People, this is some peoples' favorite part, is watching the screen... {audience continues to "Oooh"} ...coming down. Will it reach the bottom?

FLANSBURGH: Oh, one second, I just gotta get the...mic, please... This whole crowdsourcing thing is really working out for us.

LINNELL: I'm gonna watch this video over and over again, this part, this part right here. {audience laughs} Watching the part where I'm going, {mocking his previous comment} "I'm gonna watch the video, over and over". {audience laughs}

FLANSBURGH:{without microphone} ...Wait, why is there something... there's something in the way.

PUPPET HOMESTAR:{singing} Aaaaah
Tropical lazor beams
Lazor beams of love
Tropical lima beans... Oh
When you're away it's like a void
I try to avoid it
Every time you're away
I put my lazors on stun!
Because I've got to stun you
Just to get my point through!
Lazor beams!
And-the-lazor beams!
Pretty please!
With the lazor beams!

Homestar remarks that the audience is "puttin' up with the puppets twice in one night". Earlier on during the concert, They Might Be Giants performed a song under the guise of two sock puppets known as The Avatars of They.